Thursday, November 26, 2020

And then there were 4 - Christmas 1998

 And the team grows!  Another change in how we celebrated Christmas - we now go to children's Christmas parties!  This was at the Senior Police Officers' Mess (SPOM) at Mount Pleasant Road.  I used to go there occasionally when I was in training because the Police Academy was just behind it. Technically, we weren't allowed to go to the mess except when invited because we had not graduated yet (I finished my training in 1987), but we would be summoned to go up there to make up the numbers when there was some event on.




And we have a winner!  Basically they were just trying to give away stuff...


Tallest wins a prize!  Shortest also wins a prize!


Someone's fascinated by the all the cotton wool on that man's face




OK who killed Bugs?






What toys were in fashion?  Teletubbies!!!

No comments:

Post a Comment

Bouncing back

What a great trip home that was! Seeing Gabe leave the nest to set up his own home was a lovely memory (and sad). As was seeing a proper con...